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Poles Say 'Fahrenheit 9/11' Is Propaganda (one condemned movie as a "foul pamphlet")
AP/San Jose Mercury ^ | 07-23-04 | VANESSA GERA

Posted on 07/23/2004 2:03:30 PM PDT by veronica

WARSAW, Poland - "Fahrenheit 9/11" opened Friday in Poland - a U.S. ally in Iraq - with some critics comparing director Michael Moore's style to totalitarian propaganda.

But politicians who opposed Poland's decision to send troops to Iraq urged the public to see the film. Moore's movie portrays President Bush as inept and the war in Iraq as an illegitimate campaign waged to further business interests.

A critic for Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest daily newspaper, condemned the movie as a "foul pamphlet" too biased to be considered a documentary and said it reminded him of methods used by Nazi propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


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1 posted on 07/23/2004 2:03:31 PM PDT by veronica
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To: veronica
COOL !
2 posted on 07/23/2004 2:06:08 PM PDT by EggsAckley (You can't be pro small business and pro trial lawyer at the same time! ** George W. Bush **)
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To: veronica

Well, they should know, they experienced the Commie/fascist/socialist/evil first hand.


3 posted on 07/23/2004 2:06:09 PM PDT by marty60
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To: veronica
with some critics comparing director Michael Moore's style to totalitarian propaganda.

And unlike 'merican liberals they know totalitarianism.

4 posted on 07/23/2004 2:07:42 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: veronica

The only difference between Goebbels Nazi propaganda and Moore's, is that Goebbels wasn't a fat slob.


5 posted on 07/23/2004 2:08:04 PM PDT by Stallone (Make love not war! ~ Lynndie England)
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To: marty60

Exactly. New Europe recognizes a steaming pile of leftie statist bullshite when they see it.


6 posted on 07/23/2004 2:10:16 PM PDT by jayef
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AND I wonder how many of the American media will pick up THIS review........I won't hold my breath.


7 posted on 07/23/2004 2:12:19 PM PDT by marty60
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To: veronica

Good for them! People who have lived under foul dictatorships recognize them when they see them - imagine being an older Pole who remembers life under the thumb of the Communists? I bet he sees the idealized Iraq from the film and remembers the Soviet propaganda films that described life in the communist "paradise."


8 posted on 07/23/2004 2:13:05 PM PDT by AubreyRight
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.... it reminded him of methods used by Nazi propaganda filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

In this case it's Lumpy Riefenstahl.

So9

9 posted on 07/23/2004 2:14:15 PM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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To: veronica

Moore is evil person, he go to hell, that film is stupid!


10 posted on 07/23/2004 2:16:04 PM PDT by anonymoussierra
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To: anonymoussierra

I could not have said it better myself.


11 posted on 07/23/2004 2:17:23 PM PDT by jojodamofo
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To: veronica

One of the most tragic sagas of WWII is what happened to the Poles, both by the Nazis and Russians. In spite of it all, they never forgot how to think or lost their courage. I really want to go there someday.


13 posted on 07/23/2004 2:21:26 PM PDT by Spok
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To: veronica

They know their propaganda from documentaries over there, unlike we, most of us, unfortunately, over here. If the market for movies over there and just about everywhere wasn't controlled by American companies but by the locals, this piece of shiite would probably not even be shown! It'll probably bomb anyway. People on those countries don't like to be preached at, which is what most if not all of our "documentaries", Leftist or National Geographic, do. Documentary filmmaking is an art form unknown in these here parts, in my opinion.


15 posted on 07/23/2004 2:22:34 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
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To: Spok

:}}}}}}}}}}}} Thank you.


16 posted on 07/23/2004 2:24:27 PM PDT by anonymoussierra
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To: donAbbondio

Buh-bye.


20 posted on 07/23/2004 2:30:26 PM PDT by Vigilantcitizen
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